Education

Teachers

Teachers (Be)Rated

Wrong classes, wrong kids

Robby Soave | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

Police Abuse

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

War on Drugs

Headline of the Day: 'UMass to Review Policy on Students as Confidential Drug Informants'

Robby Soave | 9.30.2014 4:59 PM

Policy

Watch Bill Gates Confirm Everybody's Worst Fears About Common Core

Robby Soave | 9.30.2014 10:42 AM

Police in Schools

You Could Kill Someone With That Shirt

Charles Oliver | 9.30.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Brickbat: You Could Kill Someone With That Shirt

Charles Oliver | 9.30.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The White House Home Invasion, Obama Throws CIA Under the Bus, OK Beheading, Yes Means Yes = WTF?, School Choice Savings, and Homeschooling Scapegoats

Matt Welch | 9.29.2014 8:29 PM

Civil Liberties

Teen Jailed for Zero Tolerance Offense, Starved for 36 Hours

Robby Soave | 9.29.2014 4:40 PM

Policy

The Left/Right Alliance That Legalized Homeschooling

And its descendant, the fight against Common Core

Jesse Walker | 9.29.2014 1:26 PM

Policy

Gov. Brown Signs Bill Telling College Kids Where, When to Have Sex

Robby Soave | 9.29.2014 8:00 AM

Culture

Well, Shoot

Charles Oliver | 9.29.2014 6:00 AM

Guns

Brickbat: Well, Shoot

Charles Oliver | 9.29.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Common Core Ads Claim Standards Will Equalize All Children

Robby Soave | 9.26.2014 12:25 PM

Culture

How Can You Have Any Pudding?

Charles Oliver | 9.26.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Brickbat: How Can You Have Any Pudding?

Charles Oliver | 9.26.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

At U-M, Sexual Violence Includes 'Discounting Feelings,' 'Withholding Sex'

Robby Soave | 9.25.2014 3:53 PM

Culture

Suspicious Dresser Provokes Panic! at Florida High School

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.25.2014 1:35 PM

Culture

Fashion Police

Charles Oliver | 9.25.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Brickbat: Fashion Police

Charles Oliver | 9.25.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Colorado Curriculum Tussle Yet Another Reason to Ditch Public Schools

J.D. Tuccille | 9.24.2014 12:03 PM

Civil Liberties

Banned Books: Guess Which Book Topped the List Again

Zenon Evans | 9.24.2014 11:55 AM

Civil Liberties

School Secretly Monitoring Students' Facebook Posts—On Advice from NSA

Robby Soave | 9.24.2014 10:49 AM

Policy

Go Home, Consent, You're Drunk

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.23.2014 4:15 PM

Policy

Mich. Unions to Ex-Members: How Dare You Leave, Freeloaders

Robby Soave | 9.23.2014 1:43 PM

Culture

Now, Exhale

Charles Oliver | 9.23.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Brickbat: Now, Exhale

Charles Oliver | 9.23.2014 6:00 AM

Education

Kid Suspended for Selling Pepsi from His Locker Takes His Business to the Streets

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.22.2014 4:23 PM

Civil Liberties

School Says Students Need to Hear What Madman's Gunfire Sounds Like

Chillingly fatalistic.

Lenore Skenazy | 9.22.2014 12:48 PM

Civil Liberties

School Punishes Boy For Sharing His Lunch with Hungry Friend

Robby Soave | 9.22.2014 11:46 AM

Politics

Only YOU Can Prevent College Sexual Assaults, Say Obama and Biden

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.19.2014 2:00 PM

Policy

More Hysteria Over Toy Guns and Non-Guns in Schools

Robby Soave | 9.19.2014 12:45 PM

Economics

College Students Increasingly Illegally Downloading Textbooks for Free

Who could blame them?

Zenon Evans | 9.19.2014 11:10 AM

Censorship

High School Newspaper Editor, Adviser Suspended for Refusing to Print a Particular Word

Scott Shackford | 9.19.2014 11:00 AM

Civil Liberties

School Insanity: 17-Year-Old Hunter Faces 'Zero Tolerance' Criminal Charges

Robby Soave | 9.18.2014 4:06 PM

Politics

Is Parenthood the Reason Bobby Jindal Abandoned Common Core?

Patrick Hannaford | 9.18.2014 4:00 PM

Civil Liberties

High-School Students Respect First Amendment More Than Their Elders Do—Especially Teachers

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.18.2014 12:45 PM

Policy

L.A. School Cops Give Up Grenade Launchers … But Keep the M-16s, MRAP

Zenon Evans | 9.18.2014 12:30 PM

Policy

Homeschooling: The Kid Likes It (and Mom and Dad Have Homework Again)

J.D. Tuccille | 9.18.2014 11:53 AM

Civil Liberties

FIRE to Colleges: Happy Constitution Day! Now Respect Free Speech Already

Robby Soave | 9.17.2014 10:10 PM

Politics

Why Is the Pentagon Sending Grenade Launchers to College Campuses?

Patrick Hannaford | 9.17.2014 11:59 AM

Civil Liberties

Kid With Laser Pointer Suspended Under Weapons Policy, Because Lasers = Guns

Robby Soave | 9.17.2014 11:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Steven Salaita and the Tyranny of 'Hate Speech'

"Hate" is in the eye of the beholder.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.16.2014 4:31 PM

Policy

Common Core Will Make Schools in U.S. More Like China and That's Not a Good Thing

Robby Soave | 9.16.2014 12:13 PM

Policy

Vermont School Bans Brownies, Says 'the Kids Like Kale Here'

Reason Staff | 9.16.2014 9:05 AM

Education

Scaring Children

Charles Oliver | 9.16.2014 6:00 AM

Education

Brickbat: Scaring Children

Charles Oliver | 9.16.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Girl Writes About Pot in Her Diary, School Reads It and Suspends Her All Year

Robby Soave | 9.15.2014 4:45 PM

underemployment

The Sluggish Economy Slams Recent College Grads

Jason Keisling and J.D. Tuccille | 9.15.2014 3:30 PM